Dear Friends, Justice. Humanity. Hope. As we begin 2026, that’s what we are fighting for here at Texas Defender Service. Hope means that our client Lois, a victim of sex trafficking, will finally go home to heal from the trauma she experienced. Like many women caught in sex trafficking rings, Lois gave advice to another person being […]
Dear Supporters, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of a humane, just society included strong moral opposition to the death penalty. MLK Jr. was absolutely clear that capital punishment is unacceptable. A person of faith, Martin Luther King, Jr. said that “[c]apital punishment is against the better judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the […]
Dear Friends, Texas is one of the major centers of mass incarceration in the world. We are grateful to PBS for doing a deep dive with us on The OpenMind’s episode Deep in the Heart of Texas. Together we explored the harms of mass incarceration, the problems with the Texas death penalty, the importance of second chances, and the […]
